Awards Criteria

Submissions are now closed for the 2018 awards. Submissions will re-open on September 1, 2018 for books published on or after November 1, 2017 and no later than October 31, 2018, except in the case of the Prix du livre français and the Young Adult Literature Award, which are calculated from a publication date of on or after November 1, 2016 to October 31, 2018. The Children's Literature Award will not be offered in 2019 but will be offered again in 2020. You can download last year's criteria package above; please keep in mind that the awards and/or criteria may change from year to year. If you would like to be notified when the new criteria package is posted, and when submissions open for the 2019 awards, please sign up for our e-newsletter here:http://eepurl.com/bdvhM5.

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